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Re:The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:50PM (#49161251)
I think it's mostly misapplied. The best example of Dunning-Kruger is an intelligent, competent, Ph.D. in physics thinking 9/11 was faked because "jet fuel can't melt steel", not realizing that steel loses significant tensile strength as it heats up without necessarily melting, which I think most engineers would be aware of. His great knowledge in one area blinds him to his woeful lack of knowledge in another.
Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts
on Monday July 28, 2025 @08:53AM (#44710376)
crickets
Re:Motion Sickness Accessibility in Video Games
on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @09:38AM (#42932870)
Depends on the game, but usually turning up the FOV to much higher than most defaults will help a lot. But screen size, etc. will have an impact as well.
Re:Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023
on Thursday December 07, 2023 @08:53AM (#38556268)
https://slate.com/technology/2011/07/netflix-streaming-is-ki...
> It’s convenient, it’s not that expensive, and the selection is just good enough.
Welp, netflix (and others) are 3 for 3 on eroding those advantages.
Re:Stream Compression in NATS
on Monday October 09, 2023 @10:02AM (#37820551)
Not sure that it makes sense to compare NATS to gRPC. Maybe the thinking is because gRPC supports bi-directional streaming? The implementations are wildly different, though.
Re:Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?
on Thursday October 05, 2023 @09:57AM (#37778682)
I didn't realize it was time to drag this old chestnut out of storage. Nothing like dusting off a decades long flame war. I'm sure everyone will come to an agreement this time.
Re:Slack System Status
on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @09:38AM (#30428415)
Looks like github is down, and aws is having issues, too.
I should've stayed in bed
Re:Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hac...
on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:56PM (#28749357)
Is this why facebook is down?
Re:UPI: India's Unified Payments Interface
on Saturday August 08, 2020 @05:05PM (#24095196)
The big concern I have here is that the address resolution seems similar to DNS... Which is very bad, IMHO. Are they taking necessary steps to mitigate ddos and Man in the middle attacks? If they're not, they're seeing themselves up for major disaster.
Re:New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using ...
on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:15AM (#23221891)
There's already a PR to fix this, looks like there's a missing space after one of the minus signs.
Re:Slack Security Incident
on Friday July 19, 2019 @11:04AM (#20479203)
From the slack post:
> In other words, if you’re one of the approximately 99% who joined Slack after March 2015 or changed your password since then, this announcement does not apply to you.
Hackers compromising plaintext password would seem to apply to everyone using Slack, whether their account was compromised or not??
Re:Fixed – Fixed-place decimal math library for Go
on Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:36PM (#18561972)
And in the cryptocurrency space, we need way more than 7 decimal places.
Re:Google is down
on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @03:26PM (#18348581)
Works on my machine
Re:A Parable by Dijkstra (1973)
on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:32AM (#17542072)
This seems like it has potential for being the core of an interesting interview question. Maybe something along the lines of "You are hired as the Chief Shunter (lol) of a new rail company and the CEO, to cut costs, has stated that only half of all cars will have toilets. What instructions will you give the shunters? What complications could arise? What is the optimal solution and how would it impact UX?" etc. etc.
Re:Microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:28PM (#16795593)
Couldn't the microplastics just come from the plastic bottles the water is bottled in?
Re:Putting the I back in IDE
on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:33AM (#16705226)
"Every branch of every repo gets its own sandboxed directory. Your revision history in each branch, including uncommitted stuff, is persisted, as are build artifacts. When you switch contexts, each project is just as you left it."
Isn't that just svn? Why force a git-shaped peg into an svn-shaped hole?
Re:Getting Started with Graph Databases
on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:37AM (#11260193)
Personally, I don't need to be shown how simple a graph database can be. I need to know how it will interact with real world data.
Re:Why we're leaving Heroku
on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:36PM (#10261882)
I need a browser plugin or something to let me know when I'm visiting the website of a company that has thrown in with gov't surveillance.
Re:The Cold War nuke that fried satellites
on Friday September 11, 2015 @05:34PM (#10206297)
Except not, because satellites are now hardened against this kind of radiation as a side effect of hardening against cosmic rays, etc.
source: the article
Re:GitFlow considered harmful
on Friday June 19, 2015 @12:15PM (#9745740)
I can count on zero hands the number of times I've needed to solve a problem by navigating the branch tree.
I've lost count of the number of times that two eternal branches and feature branches with pull requests (+ code review) has saved major flaws from getting to production.
The develop branch is perfect for automatically deploying our bleeding edge to our test server.
Although, if we move to a more continuous deployment approach, we may transition away from two eternal branches. But when GitFlow was first written about, continuous deployment really wasn't the trend that it is now.
Methods will continue to evolve...
Re:The Story of Microsoft's Minecraft Buyout
on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @11:39AM (#9646553)
Who cares? I love reading some of these book exceprts. Got me to buy and read the history of Marvel. This stuff is pretty interesting.
Re:FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architecture
on Monday April 27, 2015 @03:03PM (#9448450)
It feels like they reinvented the wheel on a lot of things (especially on the monitoring side). I also wish there was some more detail about the caching/endpoint side of things. We rely heavily on Akamai's services for their edge servers, caching, and site acceleration. I don't see anything like that here, but maybe they're just not mentioning it?
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
on Thursday April 16, 2015 @06:40PM (#9391158)
They don't have to ban other app stores. All they have to do is require that apps that run on your device be signed by Apple's certificates... which requires the App Store ecosystem.
If you jailbreak device to be able to run unsigned code, of course this restriction goes away and you can use whatever app store you want... like Cydia, for instance.
Re:Android’s 10 Millisecond Problem explained
on Thursday April 16, 2015 @03:49PM (#9390358)
Does this cause audio de-sync issues on Android?
Re:The daily stand-up is an anti-pattern
on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @11:13PM (#9338618)
As a lead developer, if my developers are only motivated to do something each day because of being held accountable the next day, then I hired the wrong people. I want people to be self-starters. I shouldn't have to babysit and micromanage what they're doing each day.
We use stand-ups as opportunities to discuss obstacles that people are encountering and discuss opportunities for pair programming. I use them as an option in my training toolkit. If we're working on fairly routine things (like setting up unit tests, database layers, etc.) then I don't bother with stand-ups at all unless I sense a need (like someone hitting a wall).
Re:Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
on Monday March 02, 2015 @05:53PM (#9134923)
Why would breach-of-contract have anything to do with the DMCA?
Re:Four ways to a Practical Code Review (2007)
on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:59PM (#8926063)
I guess we're already doing these. We use a pull request workflow and I get an email when a developer creates the pull request. I inspect the changes in the request and approve and/or merge the changes into our main development branch. EZPZ
Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:01PM (#8925305)
There will still be room for full VR and its applications with a mature AR device like HoloLens.
Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:59PM (#8925286)
After seeing that Autodesk is finally iterating on some of their software to support the rapid protoyping/3D printing community in major ways, I'd like to see what kinds of tools Autodesk could come up with. I see Holo Studio as the MS Paint of "Holographic computing" or whatever we're calling it now.
Is that a killer app, I guess not, but if this HoloLens device is really running Windows 10, and the API's are baked into the OS, that puts it MILES ahead of where Google Glass was, and developers will be able to do something more interesting than take photos and share them on Google+.